Sorry, that comment came out facetious, but it was meant to illustrate how easy it is to find more rabbit holes. We keep complaining about the horrors but that almost always pushes us off the anti-corruption path. ie, getting interested in the military quantification while the corporate profits go unchecked, strait into political campaigns at a 100:1 ROI.
We end up with politicians claiming we need to protect the "American interests" of drug or chip factories overseas at the cost of billions, which feeds profits of drug or phone manufacturers but doesn't bring down the consumer costs of health, phone service or useful goods, because the 'savings' go to dividends and stock buybacks. All under the watchful eyes of whom? The powerless laborer? The Professional Management Class? Tenured Intellectuals?
Americans and their adfeeds don't know and can't find out that there's really nobody in charge of any coherent plan. There's just profits, competition and the sycophants of the wealthy who make TV shows so everyone can stare like Border Collies watching the dinner table: waiting for a crumb to fall. They really don't want to know where the crumbs came from or how many people died to get them. There's only the watching, the waiting and loyalty to the crumb droppers.